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| A police officer in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, put some fear into seven youngsters selling lemonade. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
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| The British government has told communications companies to keep track of all Internet contacts anyone makes-including email messages, website visits, and use of social networking sites--and organize them in case law enforcement agencies need the information. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
55 |
| Law enforcement officers across Massachusetts regularly use the state criminal records system to snoop on celebrities, according to a state audit. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
37 |
| British officials say they will provide data collected by their planned national ID cards to tax authorities. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
47 |
| After Hollywood, Florida, police officer Joel Francisco rear-ended Alexandra Torrensvilas's car at an intersection, he radioed for backup. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
65 |
| New Zealand officials made a small error in their response to an elderly Indian man's immigration application. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
56 |
| The Swedish government has barred a family from giving their new daughter the middle name Michael, in honor of Michael Jackson. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
31 |
| A broken road reflector ripped a hole in one of the tires on Paul Holden's car, so he filed a claim with the state of Ohio and paid the $25 filing fee. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
120 |
| You wouldn't expect the Chinese government to admit it has a manual for local officials on how to beat people without leaving marks. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
60 |
| Caitlin Robinson's mother died from skin cancer, and her family says she's at risk for the disease. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
45 |
| Security screeners at an airport in Columbus, Ohio, couldn't tell what was inside a sealed can they found in a woman's luggage. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
50 |
| >Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Chief Joe Browne says his department will apologize for detaining Dane Spurrell. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
40 |
| Walter Healey, a retired employee of the New York Tax Department, has pled guilty to identity theft. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
47 |
| While Klaus Matzka of Austria was vacationing in London, police detained him and forced him and his sons to delete the photos they had taken of the city's famed double-decker buses. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
50 |
| The Denver Police Department has suspended an officer for flashing his badge and pointing his gun through a McDonald's drive-through window. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
38 |
| Until press reports prompted them to back down, city officials in Bozeman, Montana, demanded that prospective employees list their user names and passwords. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
54 |
| Ewelina Bledniak's parents emigrated to the United States from Poland when she was just 2. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
64 |
| In Washington state's West Valley School District, kindergarten teacher Sue Graham has been reprimanded for sending a bag of human feces home in a student's backpack. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
42 |
| Stuart Kennedy of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been charged with impersonating a police officer 22 times--and cleared of the charges in court 22 times. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
74 |
| A teacher at Wiley Elementary School in Richland, Washington, asked students to assemble autobiographies. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
52 |
| The New York City Housing Authority has banned Boston terriers from housing projects. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
37 |
| St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Rochester, Pennsylvania, has sold homemade pies as part of its fish-fry fundraisers for as long as anyone can remember. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
69 |
| In Italy more than 100 people are being investigated for allegedly rigging traffic signals at intersections with stoplight cameras to increase the number of fines. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
57 |
| It seemed like a routine traffic stop until a Brisbane, Australia, police officer ordered Chad Hastings out of his car. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
74 |
| In Indiana more than 11,000 crime victims were incorrectly notified that the criminals who victimized them were being released from prison. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
45 |
| The city of New Orleans sent Mary Kieff 226 parking tickets in two years, with fines totaling nearly $20,000. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
103 |
| Janitor Jesus Barajas saved for 30 years to build his dream house on a piece of property he owns in Seattle. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
85 |
| The British government has unveiled plans to track every person who leaves the United Kingdom, even for just one day. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
43 |
| Washington state banned the sale of dishwashing detergents containing more than 0.5 percent phosphates; the prohibition will go statewide next year, but it initially took effect in Spokane County. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
61 |
| In Seminole County, Florida, Judge Ralph Erikkson tossed a man in jail because he did not like the fellow's lawyer. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
51 |
| Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the state's child pornography laws to cover material featuring people older than 60 and the disabled--even if they are mentally competent. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
54 |
| In New Zealand, Steve Wyn-Harris rented a wall-less tent for the 50th Jubilee of Central Hawke's Bay College. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
33 |
| Ryan Moats, a running back for the Houston Texans, rushed to the hospital with his family when he heard his mother-in-law was dying. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
128 |
| Mike and Cathy Grosse were shopping when they got the call from the Hamilton, Ohio, fire department. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
37 |
| Sgt. Steve Brody, an officer with the Morrisville State College University Police in upstate New York, used to stop each morning at a store that offers free coffee to cops. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
61 |
| Adolph J. Moreno was sentenced to two days in an Overland Park, Kansas, jail. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
31 |
| Paula Anderson asked students in her communication course at Central Connecticut State University to make an oral presentation on a "relevant issue in the media.". |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
91 |
| Katina Mitchell, a Loudon County, Virginia, school bus driver, got upset with two boys who were arguing on the bus, so she offered the other students $20 to throw snowballs at one of the boys and put snow down his shirt. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
57 |
| An Iranian court has found a man identified as Majid guilty of blinding Ameneh Bahrami by throwing acid in her face after she spurned his advances. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
79 |
| Chris and Mike Thompson weren't happy when they found that someone had stolen the wheels and tires from their Audi, which they had parked on the street in Washington, D.C. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
85 |
| Roy and Val Worthington decided to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cowboy-themed party at their Leicestershire, England, home. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
37 |
| When a police helicopter's infrared cameras picked up a heat image from Colin Rowe's workshop in West Yorkshire, England, the cops were convinced he was growing marijuana there. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
48 |
| China's culture ministry says it will ban professional performers from miming, lip syncing, or pretending to play musical instruments. |
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May 1, 2009 |
36 |
| Jasbir Singh said he just wanted to show his support for the police when he placed a police union bumper sticker on his car. |
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May 1, 2009 |
43 |
| After 6-year-old Natalie Shea drew some pictures with chalk on the sidewalk in front of her Brooklyn home, the Department of Sanitation sent her parents a letter. |
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May 1, 2009 |
41 |
| Walter Andre Sharpe Jr. has been jailed four times since 2001, lost his job, and had more than $12,000 taken from him to support the child of a different Andre Sharpe with a different date of birth, address, and Social Security number. |
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May 1, 2009 |
73 |
| Florida's Tri-Rail commuter train service faces a budget deficit. |
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May 1, 2009 |
38 |
| Pennsylvania has banned smoking in private homes and vehicles used for child care services. |
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May 1, 2009 |
71 |
| To fight terrorism, the British government has proposed a national database of all cell phone owners. |
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May 1, 2009 |
36 |
| Martin Ryan starved to death over 26 days in a National Health Service hospital in England. |
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May 1, 2009 |
47 |
| Raegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, were sent home from Rednock School in England and told not to come back until they dyed their hair brown. |
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May 1, 2009 |
45 |
| Lone Star College threatened to place the Young Conservatives of Texas on probation after the group distributed a flier listing a tongue-in-cheek "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips.". |
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May 1, 2009 |
64 |
| In Worcester, England, Bill Malcolm put barbed wire around his tool shed and vegetable plots after thieves struck three times in four months. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
44 |
| Six Newton County, Georgia, sheriff's deputies came to Tosha Ford's home and took her to-year-old son, Alandis, to jail, where he was charged with possessing a weapon on school property and with terroristic threats and acts. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
42 |
| U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents spent more than an hour searching and questioning New York resident Jerilea Zempel when she tried to return to the country from Canada. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
52 |
| Troy Garcia's neighbors thought it was great that he plowed the snow off the streets of their Spokane Valley, Washington, neighborhood. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
44 |
| Henry Marshall says several Orlando, Florida, police officers kicked in the doors of his house, pointed guns at him, and ransacked his home. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
67 |
| Khalin Rivenbark had a cold, so her father put a few cough drops in her book bag before sending her off to school. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
59 |
| A British Ministry of Defense contractor seems to have misplaced a computer hard drive. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
37 |
| A class at New York's New Rochelle High School was asked to compare the book Girl, Interrupted with its film adaptation. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
40 |
| About a year after Julie Strange's son Paul died, she received a letter from England's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, addressed to Paul, that claimed he had not sent in required information on a vehicle he owned. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
104 |
| Cornelius F. Salonis spent two months in a Minnesota jail on drug possession charges before lab tests showed the white powder police found in his car was deodorant. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
37 |
| In Denton County, Texas, a 13-year-old boy has been placed in juvenile detention on child pornography charges. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
33 |
| The British government is set to ban "happy hour" discounted drink promotions in bars, according to British press reports. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
50 |
| Daytona Beach, Florida, has banned Santa Claus. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
47 |
| Why did police seek former Orange County, California, Republican Party Chairman George Andrews for questioning? |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
57 |
| Utah has prohibited grocery stores and convenience stores from selling fruity alcoholic drinks. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
34 |
| Beaufort County, South Carolina, Council Member Laura Von Harten said she would vote against a proposal to rezone a local Catholic church so it can expand. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
65 |
| For hundreds of years, spas in Asia have used carp to eat the dead skin off their customers. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
104 |
| Dutch police cited a 27-year-old man for smoking a joint in one of Amsterdam's famous coffee shops. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
52 |
| An auction for 56 foreclosed properties in Utah fell through when the owners rejected the bids. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
47 |
| Deanna Gonzales says she was in the shower when she heard shots fired. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
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| In Chicago vote registration materials were sent to "Princess Nudelman.". |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
35 |
| The Federal Communications Commission is deciding who will get the channels it forced the satellite radio companies Sirius and XM to set aside for minority groups as a condition for approving their merger. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
76 |
| Tampa International Airport police learned from Canadian customs officials that Robert Christianson had some outstanding warrants, so as soon as he stepped off a plane they arrested him. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
43 |
| Police officers in Massachusetts earn up to $40 an hour directing traffic at highway work sites. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
55 |
| Someone posted a warning about a possible police sobriety checkpoint on a message board devoted to events in Rockland, Massachusetts. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
83 |
| An Amtrak train running from Los Angeles to San Diego ran out of fuel about 15 miles from the station. |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
53 |
| A security guard at Seagoville High School in Dallas, Texas, ordered a student to take off her rosary. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
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| In California's Dos Palos High School, an assistant principal forced Jake Shelly to take off his shirt and wear a T-shirt proclaiming him a dress code violator. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
53 |
| Dave Alsop parked his car in a lot near Torquy Harbor in England at 2:49 p.m. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
112 |
| State law may prohibit some Texans who own beachfront property from rebuilding on it in the wake of Hurricane Ike. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
66 |
| Jack Anderson may be just 6, but he's been on the federal government's no-fly list for years. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
91 |
| When police in South Charleston, West Virginia, pulled over Jose Cruz for driving under the influence and driving with no headlights, he passed gas and waved his hand, directing the smell toward the officer. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
52 |
| The poet Friedrich Schiller has been dead for more than 200 years. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
57 |
| When Brazil's Environment Ministry set out to document the 100 biggest illegal loggers, it found the biggest offender was the government itself. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
42 |
| Joseph A. Shepard Sr. sat in a St. Louis jail for two years on drug charges, apparently forgotten by the court, prosecutors, and even his own attorney. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
71 |
| Students at Minnesota's Prior Lake High School will no longer be able to wear hats or hooded shirts during the school day. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
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| In 2003 Great Britain gave local officials greater power to place people under surveillance and trace their telephone calls and email. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
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| Eight-year-old guitarist Tallan "T-Man" Latz has jammed with Les Paul and Jackson Browne and played at bars and clubs across the nation. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
81 |
| Tiffany Dickson of Lawton, Oklahoma, told officials the father of her child was named Michael and his last name might be Thomas. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
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| Australia's Belgian Gardens State School. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
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| Shirley Preiss has voted in 19 straight presidential elections. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
92 |
| Seagoville High School in Texas adopted a new dress code this year mandating that students wear only brown or black belts with a "standard buckle" and no designs or logos. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
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| Toi Pruitt, her three children, and her boyfriend, Joe Pulliam, planned to move into a house Pruitt and Pulliam bought in Black Jack, Missouri. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
57 |
| Clyde Scott was in his barbershop cutting hair when a police officer walked in and gave him a ticket--for cutting hair. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
54 |
| Lenny Woodward is 96 and nearly blind, so you'd think people might understand when he accidentally put two glass jars in the wrong recycling bin. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
81 |
| Steve Kink heard an alarm go off outside his wife's bar in Weymouth, England. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
86 |
| Massena, New York, code enforcement officer Gregory Fregoe says inflatable pools are a menace, and he has cited at least 20 people so far this year for having them. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
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| Tom Kleven thought he'd prepare for a triathlon by swimming across Minnesota's Lake Nokomis. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
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